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Hypnotism, 

But 

Suggestion 




By 

HENRY 
HARRISON 
BROWN 

Fifth Edition 



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Born in Massachusetts in 1840. Served in 
U. S. Volunteers during Civil War from 
August, 1862, until October, 18G5. Taught 
school ; worked upon newspapers ; lectured 
in various fields for 17 years; was 7 years a 
Unitarian minister. I entered my present 
work of mental healing and teaching in 1893. 
Editor and publisher of NOW >ince January, 
1900. 1 have thus gained by experience that 
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How To Control Fate 
Through Suggestion 

By HENRY HARRISON BROWN, author 
of "Not Hypnotism, but Suggestion," "Man's 
Greatest Discovery/' and editor of NOW. 
62 pp., paper. 

Price, 25 Cents 

The principles dealt with arc: Unity. Revo- 
lution. Tendency of Thought. Fate. Man 
Logic. Matter. Evolution. Force. Spirit. 
The New Man. Finer Vibrations. All 
Knowledge Possible. Race Sensitiveness. 
Savior-. Progress. No Sickness. Liberty. 
Spiritual Gifts. Classification of Psychic 
Tower. Love. Love*- Pitch and Octaves. 
Concentration. Involuntary Concentration. 
One Power to Heal. Millennium Here. 
Wonderfully helpful to all. Following is 
one of the many good things said of this 
book : 

"The world is full of Xew Thought Litera- 
ture. It is helpful and inspiring to read. The 
latest to come to me is: 'How to Control 
Fate through Suggestion,' by Henry Harrison 
Brown. It is worth many dollars to any one 
who will live its philosophy.'' 

ELLA YYIil^F.LER WILCOX. 



The power of Suggestion, which has been verified, con- 
trolled and admitted, has at the same time reduced the 
number of impostors and miracles of past time. The 
most unlikely phenomena have regained this veneer 01* 
reality. They are no longer contested, because the) now 
appear to us natural, possible and verifiable. 

JEAN FINOT, in Century Review, 1906. 



Suggestion has but one purpose and it is the Mas- 
ter purpose of life; to develop the perfection of charac- 
ter, which is Self-Control. 

"' 'Do you control your thoughts? Can you control your 
thoughts? Do you wish the power of controlling your 
thoughts? Do you wish to learn the power of your 
thoughts? Then take a course in Hypnotism. Learn 
through it. thai you can think, upon your body, pain or 
its immunity. That you can think upon yourself a men- 
tal state of peace or of misery; learn that you can control 
your thoughts and thus create any condition you desire; 
learn that through voluntary concentration — which is all 
the hypnotist can teach you to do — you can be "Master 
of Fate and Captain of your Soul." " 

HENRY HARRISON' BROWN, in NOW. 



NOT HYPNOTISM, 

BUT SUGGESTION 

A Lesson in 

SOUL CULTURE 

BY 

HENRY HARRISON BROWN 

Author of "How to Control Fate through Suggestion," "Man's 

Greatest Discovery," "Concentration," "Success," etc. 

and Editor of NOW. 

So shall some Thought of mine yet encircle earth, 
And puff away thy crumbling altars, Jove. 

— Lowell. 

Logic and Sermons never convince, 

The damp of night drives deeper into my Soul. 

—Walt Whitman. 



A man for success must have ideas, must obey ideas, or he 
might as well be the horse he rides on. Of no use are the men 
who study to do exactly as was done before, who never under- 
stand that today is a new day. — Emerson. 



Fifth Revised Edition. 

HENRY HARRISON BROWN 

589 Haight Street, San Francisco, Cal. 

1918 



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Copyrighted, 1902 

Copyrighted, 1918 

I»y Henry Harrison Brown 



MAY -8 1918 
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TO THE 

Young Discjpi.es of Soul Culture 
Who Made "NOW" FOLK Possible. 



/ hold the KEY 

To Health, Success and Happiness. 

Study me and find it. 

Meditation -rcill re7'CCll it. 

■ Ipply it in Living, 

Then all THINGS desired 

arc thine. 



PROEM 



YOU! 
Wore you to learn that in a certain vault was untold treasure, 
and that, could you find the KEY, it would be yours, what 
would you do? 

Did you know that beneath your acres lie valuable mines of 
precious ore and only a certain amount of dynamite would rift 
(he hills and expose it, what would you do? 

Did some expert convince you that wells of oil lie under your 
field and only a certain drill would bore to it, what would vou 
do? 

Did you ascertain that a certain book held all the information 
to make you wise in your dealings with men ; that it would 
make each waking hour happy and each sleeping one peaceful, 
and that only by a great sacrifice could you obtain it, what 
would you do? 

You would sacrifice all you at present possess, for you would 
know that, possessing these, millions more would be yours. 
You possess now all these treasures. You arc able to pay for 
their revelation. Will you? 

I. 
1 ]M><v t .,s the Power that will bring the realization of y<>ur pos- 
session. 

It is the only Power that can give this to you. 
All that gold is yours. I have the KEY. 
All those mines are yours. 1 have the POWDER. 
All those wells are yours. 1 have the DRILL. 
All that information is yours. I have the BOOK. 
It is yours by birthright. You did not know it. It lies deep 
WITHIN. Knowledge is POWER. It unlocks the treasure. 
That Knowledge so long sought is found. Its name is WIS 
DOM. That KEY, that POWDER* thai DRILL, that BOOK, 
is SUGGESTION. 



"Jt seems to me that most of the objection to hypnotism 
arises from a fear or prejudice against the name itself 
and from misconception and misunderstanding regard- 
ing its power (or rather lack of power) to produce harm- 
ful results. The best authorities have found that sug- 
gestion may he made quite as effective while the subject 
is awake as by the use of hypnotism, except in some pe- 
culiar and unu.ual cases, hut thei e is no reasonable ground 
tor the denial or condemnation of hypnotism by New 
1 nought people. 

"Hypnotism is only one form (a minor form) of sugges- 
tion and suggestion is the method by which all Christian 
Science, Divine Science and New Thought healme is ac- 
complished. 

"Affirmation for healing and self-development is sim- 
ply self-suggestion and is most effective when the con- 
scious mind is passive. 

"Hypnotism is simply a condition of induced sleep, dur- 
ing which the conscious mind is in abeyance and the sub- 
conscious mind i, free to carry out suggestions and mani- 
fest its powers. 

"In the hands of the trained physicians of Saltpetriere 
Hospital in Pans hypnotism has produced many almost 
miraculous cures, and modified and developed to a won- 
derful extent the nature of some of the criminal patients 
treated there. Many intelligent physicians in our own 
country have employed hypnotism in special and oeculiar 
cases with success." 

WM. E. TOWNE, in Nautilus. 



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PREFACE 



Phenomena, under the name "Hypnotism," draw in- 
creased and deserved attention. For nearly one hundred 
and fifty years it has been known and, under various 
names, produced for amusement, mystification, study, or 
physical benefit. It has been best known as ''Mesmer- 
ism" and "Animal Magnetism." It now has a literature 
of its own and occupies much attention in the secular 
press. Its friends are in every walk of life. Schools 
and mail courses of study are plentiful. It is destined to 
be a most powerful factor in the therapeutic, educational 
and reformatory growth of the new century. That these 
phenomena exist is now no longer doubted. Their im- 
portance is admitted by all who give the subject even a 
casual study. 

The author believes that the principle involved in them 
is the most important man has yet discovered, that it is 
destined to produce greater changes in man and his en- 
vironments than any previous discovery. Believing this, 
he is devoting his energies to assist the development of 
a proper understanding of this Principle in the popular 
mind. He believes it to be the one Thought needed to 
bring in the age foretold by prophet and priest. 
His intention is to explain these phenomena, to show 
their harmony with all other perceptions of Truth. The 
Law that underlies these phenomena is more practical 
than the multiplication table. 

But the author wishes to say, first of all. that lie u 
the word "Hypnotism" under a protest. The name is 
a misnomer. It comes from "hypnosis/' meaning sleep. 

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Sleep is not necessary to the phenomena nor to receive 
benefits from their use. In but few experiments is sleep 
necessary. Besides, the word carries with it the miscon- 
ceptions Oi a false theory. There is no such thing as 
"hypnotic power" ,, r "hypnotic phenomena." The phe- 
nomena occur, but they are not hypnotic. They arc not 
the effect of a power that the operator p, but 

are the effect of the subject's own mind. All the phe- 
nomena produced by a -'hypnotic'" subject arc as honest 
as those produced by him in school, home or workshop 
and arc as natural and normal as those— are really iden- 
tical in origin. In a subject, they arc artificially repro- 
duced and exaggerated. 

The only power the operator has is that which teacher 
merchant, preacher, mother or friend poss ,,ver 

Others. It is what, in ordinary speech, is termed "Inflll- 
Ihe only difference between the "Hypnotic Pro- 
501" an-! men in other walks of life is that he under- 
lids and uses consciously the same power that men in 
other phases of life use unconsciously and instinctively. 
It is the object of this book to remove all mystery from 
Hypnotism, to prepare mental conditions for a clear un- 
derstanding of the principle of Suggestion, in accord 
with which all phenomena of life occur, and to prepare 
the way for its application in daily life. 
As I wr ite this introduction, there comes to my exchange 
table a valued journal showing that its otherwise very 
intelligent editor has a misconception of the subject of 
Hypnotism, lie says: "We are individuals and refuse 
to surrender the control of ourselves or our mentality 
to anyone." This book will show that when one shall 
understand what Suggestion is, he will see that, instead 
of a surrender of individuality, it is a development of 
individuality. It places him in full control of himself 
Suggestion is the road to self-control. It is putting in- 



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to practice the law which it is man's province to bend to 
hi* Will, the law of Concentration. 

To learn our powers and how to use them, is the prov- 
ince of education. There is no other way to self-know i- 
utee equal to a knowledge of Suggestion. The end of 
this knowledge is self-control and self-control is the 
acme of character. Those who oppose hypnotism do so 
lv through a misunderstanding of the law of Sugges- 

■ on "If one can thus destroy another's will," it is said, 
then he can influence to evil and crime." Certainly, 

"If"! But that is impossible, as I shall later show. 

\s an expert. 1 declare that man has found no law of 

so much importance to his well-being as that explained 

in this book. 

San Francisco, Calif., 
January, 1902. 



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There is limitation, model, and suggestion, to the very 
archangels, \i we knew their histor 

EMERSON, m "Quotations and Originality." 

The best mind is that which is most impressionable 
A master can formulate his thoughts. Our thoughts at 
irst possess us. Later, if we have good heads, we come 
to possess them. We believe that certain persons add 
U) the common vision a certain degree of control over 
these -t;,tes oi mind; that the true scholar is one who 
Has the power tn stand beside his thoughts or to hold 
tuem Off at arm. length and give them perspective. 
EMERSON, in "Natural History of the Intellect." 



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PREFACE TO THIS FIFTH EDITION 

A few years ago hypnotic exhibitions were a common 
form of stage entertainment. That phase of hypnotism, 
having served its purpose of familiarizing the public 
with the fact that there is in the mind a subtle power, 
lias passed away. Hypnotism has been considered mys- 
terious and dangerous because of the belief that this 
subtle power resides in the mind and will of the oper- 
ator, who could use it, secretly and irresistibly, to the 
injury of his fellows. But we now know that this pow- 
er resides within each individual and that it can be exer- 
cised only by himself and upon himself. We know that 
hypnotic phenomena are always present in the every day 
life of us all. And since every man is controlled by his 
own thought, he is in a constant state of self-hypnotism. 
In fact, all human expressions are forms of self-hypnot- 
ism. I am that which, for the time, I think I am. We 
know, furthermore, that the stage phenomena are but 
the exaggeration of ordinary and natural expressions. 
The discovery that all mental action is incident upon 
thought proves the truth of the saying, old as history, 
'"As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." This is but 
a statement of the one Law under which all men live — 
the Law of Self-suggestion. The phenomena which were 
at first ascribed to the hypnotic power of a few individ- 
uals, a power which was supposed to reside in them 
alone, we now know are the manifestations of a power 
thai is res-dent in each individual and are due to the op- 
eration of the Law of Suggestion. This knowledge has 
become so widespread that comparatively little interest 
18 now felt in stage hypnotism. On the other hand, there 
is an absorbing interest in the every day application of 

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the I aw of Suggestion. Many cults have arisen, each of 
winch., m ,ts ( ,wn peculiar way, applies this Law for a 
variety of purposes, especially for healing. But they 
f" hold the old, false conceptions of the 8 power and 
ganger oi hypnotism and arc still inculcating the old 
k>ar . ut IL } hv > a" ignorant of the great Law of Sug- 
gestion, under which they do all their work. The best 
Stage operator ha. no more innate power over his sub- 
jects than a babe has over a statesman. The power re- 
gies in the subject, and is merely his ability to control 
us own Noughts and voluntarily to accept as his own 
he dionolu suggested to him. The purpose of tins lit- 
tfc book IS to set forth with the greatest clarity this im- 
portant principle. 

The reasons why hypnotism has been so misunderstood 
are easily discovered. The chief reason is to he found 
"I the extraordinary character of the phenomena oh- 
served in the subject. These phenomena were so strange 
and inexplicable that they led to the false conception that 
they were due to the extraordinary and dangerous pow- 
er ol the- operator. Another reason for the popular mis- 
understand, no is found in the dishonesty of stage oper- 
ators, who have not been content with real phenomena, 
but have supplemented their exhibitions with tricks and 
takes. Such dishonest operators have strengthened 
the common belief that one person may have the mys- 
terious and compelling power to force others to act 
against their own will. I dare risk my reputation as a 
teacher on the affirmation that never yet has any hyp- 
notist compelled another person to act against his own 
will. Such tricksters are the worst of present day crim- 
inals, for they teach the dangerous error that one per- 
son can be made subject, unwillingly, to the thought and 
will of another. There are hundreds of people suffer- 
ing from the delusion that they are under the hypnotic 

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control of some other person. The) are found in every 
Stage of this delusion, from the simple one of fear to that 
of hopeless insanity. Every practitioner knows that 
these self-hypnotized persons are most difficult to re- 
store to normal conditions. 

Realizing the confusion in the public mind and knowing 
the dangers arising from the ignorant fear of hypnotism, 
I was inspired sixteen years ago, from my wide experi- 
ence, to write this little hook as a "mental disinfectant." 
I [aving daily evidence that there is still widespread ig- 
norance of the importance and heneficence of the Law 
of Suggestion, I issue this revised edition — the fifth — 
Lrusting that the little hook will continue its good 
work. Appreciating the kind reception it has had. 1 
again send it forth, a modest candidate for public favor. 



HENRY HARRISON BROWN. 



San Francisco, Calif., 
February 14, 1918. 



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The Key to Wisdom, the Inlet to Power, 

And the road to Success, are all found 

In the Principle of Suggestion. 

This discussion is based upon a 
philosophy, called "NOW" Philosophy, 

or "Soul Culture" 



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NOT HYPNOTISM, 

BUT SUGGESTION 



TRUTH AND 
UNITY 

Truth is a fixed quantity. Man perceives but does not 
create Truth. Truth and the Universe are Coexten- 
sive. 

It is not Truth and error; it is only more or less Truth. 
The Universe is One. This Universe is divided, by my 
Consciousness, into myself and that which is not myself. 
This division is purely a mental one ; I make it when 1 
say,- "I AM." There is a larger part of the Universe oi 
which I am not conscious. That of which I am con- 
scious I shall call myself; that of which I am uncon- 
scious is variously named God. Energy, Force, Nature, 
etc. These are but names, and names are only symbols 
for that which is. I am not a separated portion of the 
Universe; 1 am a manifestation of the whole of it. Jims 
my recognition of Self divides the Universe, to my con- 
sciousness, into what I call "I," which is the Within, and 
what I call "Xot I," which is the Without. This is the 
simplest of all philosophical statements It is as simple as 
Cause and Effect. 

"I" AND 
"NOT I" 

Through Sensation I am able to separate between the 

''Me" and the "Not me," between the Absolute and the 
Individual. Consciousness abides in the power to sense 

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that which is the Me, and distinguish if from the Non 
me. Sensation is differentiated into five special senses. 

By means of these senses, 1 know that 1 am not that 
whlch l 5e nse. I am the "\" which senses. Because I 
sense, that is because I feel, I think. ! am something 
thai reels and thinks. What is this "I"? It is not that 
which is felt and is thought about. We name it Ego, 
Soul, Spirit, Self. This \ s simply naming the "1 A.M."' 
It names but does not explain. Now that "I A.M." be- 
cause I feel and think, the questions rise: Can I feel 
what I choose to feel? Can I think what I choose to 
think? It is with these questions that this book deals. 
It I can thus choose, I am a free man. If 1 cannot. 1 
am a slave. 



POWER OF 
CHOICE 

Can I control the Non-Ale SO that it will make .Me feel 
and think as I choose. \m I an independent individ- 
uality in the Universe where I can use, at will, the foi 
Oi that I 'inverse? This is the most important question 

man has ever considered. Heretofore the answer has 
been, "No!" lint the twentieth century opens with the 
answer. "A'es!'* 

SENSATION 

How? To teach "how," is the object of this book. 
Briefly the answer is this:— The phenomena called Hyp- 
notic, but which are the daily phenomena of Suggestion, 
when once their significance is known, contain this need- 
ed knowledge. To nnderstand this significance, we must 
look, through the demonstrations of science, into the 
phenomena of sensation. 

Sensation is the recognition by the Ego of that which 

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is on the without <>i itself— outside itself. Sensation aris- 
es from contact of the Within and the Without. What 
contacts? To science, all is motion. The Ego is a form 
of motion. The Without is a form of motion. All con- 
tact is through radiation from centers. These radiations 
are called, when passing through space. Vibrations. All 
contact is that of some vibration upon the Ego. rhe 
body does not feel; it is only the channel through which 
vibrations impinge upon the Ego. A body which the 
Ego has left does not feel. Dead bodies have no 
tion. Vibrations differ in speed Pitch is the better 
word. Vibrations of different pitch produce different 
sensations. We call one sensation taste, another odor, 
another sound, another light, but these are only differ- 
entiations of the one sense of touch. 

EMOTION 

The begining of consciousness lies in Feeling. By it we 

are kept in touch with Unity, of which we are simply a 
manifestation. Unity is indivisible. Thus I, the Ego, 
am a necessity to Unity, for without an Ego then' would 
be neither sensation nor thought. Individuality is mani- 
fest in Unity, through thought, born of Feeling. What- 
ever 1 sense, be it pleasure or pain, joy or sorrow, beau- 
ty or goodness, music or love, is produced in me as a re- 
sponse of the Ego to some vibration. This respon 
call an emotion. "E" means out; thus we have an out- 
motion to meet the ''in"-motion ; an involution and an 
evolution. When the Ego does not respond to the \ ; 
bration, as in very young children; in the blind, and in 
the deaf; there i- in these neither light nor sound. But 
the vibrations from without, which would cause these 
sensations, were they received, still exist. Thus 
the individual make his own world. The blind lives in 
a world of darkness, and the deaf in a soundless one. 

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KEY TO WISDOM 

Can the individual who sees and hears refuse to see and 
lKar; Tllis is a question of more import than wireless 
telegraphy or aerial navigation. Ii one can so cho< 
he will see and hear only the pleasant. Happiness is 
ever his who shall achieve this power of conscious 
choice. I<» knew hovt to choose and how to live in the 
w< >rld oi chosen sensation, is the knowledge above all oth- 
er knowledge. To possess it is to have the Key to Wis- 
dom. 1 his it is to be Self-Controlled,— to be the Ma 
°, ,,;itc '- ,ll,s J> l,) create each day the conditions we 
wish. I hat it can he done, thousands today, in their 
self-created conditions of health and prosperity, testify. 
Conditions may he as consciously determined and 
wrought out as are the statues and paintings in the gal- 
leries. '1 h^ knowledge comes as all other comes,— from 
Mother Nature herself; from observing the phenomena 
01 dady life. 

RESPONSIBILITY 
OF CHOICE 

Each person now. in ignorance of his power and of the 

laws of mind (and foremost among them is the Law of 
Suggestion), creates his body and his surroundings 

from Ins choice. Each day's conditions are the result of 
choices made without knowledge of results. As proof 
witness these and many similar common expressions: 
It I had known more last year"; "Had I chosen dif- 
ferently : '-Had I forgiven"; "Had I bought or sold 
how ditterent my life would be." And one is condemned 
for his intemperance, his crime, his poverty, or his ig- 
norance, "because he could do better," thus implying a 
belief at least in a limited power of choice, and a limited 
responsibility for the conditions of life. Every one real- 
izes that his life would be very different today had he 

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made a different decision on certain matters a year ago. 
Thus do we shape destiny according to our intelligence. 
This proves the point I wish to emphasize: each one, 
whether he is conscious of it or not, creates his own con- 
ditions of life. Seeing it clearly in a few cases, we are 
compelled to say that it is the same in all. The cause of 
conditions is located within. Each person by his acts of 
choice in the past has produced the con litions in which 
he finds himself. And furthermore, by acts of choice he 
can change his present conditions. 

CREATIVE 
THOUGHT 

We have now only to apply the wisdom those facts of 
daily life teach us. All the choice comes from the one 
Law of Suggestion. Where lies choice? Not in sensa- 
tion, the primal recognition of the Ego — of Self — and 
that which is not Self, but in sensation when it is trans- 
formed into thought by that portion of the nervous sys- 
tem which the Ego created for that purpose. It is in 
Thought that nun differ. All feel alike. Sensation i 
one. The vibrations that make light in one cannot make 
sound in another. The sound once made, each person 
thinks his own thought, born of it. The car whistle 
causes the engineer and the traveler, the boy and the 
farmer, to think differently. In the wife of the engineer 
it may awaken emotions of fear; in that of the passen- 
ger, emotions of joy. Yet the sensation, caused by vibra- 
tion 011 the car, is one in all. But over sensations pre- 
sides the individual Ego, and it decides how sensations 
shall affect him. He is king in his domain, — the world 
of Thought. "The kingdom of Cod is within YOU!" 
said Jesus. Thus is Thought the creator of that real 
world in which the Ego lives. Thought-created are all 
the conditions of life. 

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UNLIKENESS 

Universal Energy is One. It manifests as Life, It is 
< me in all men. Life manifests first as Sensation which 
is the same in all. Hut sensation is transmuted into 
thought, then all are unlike; they become individuals. 

The Indian, the Californium the Mexican and the China 
Mian have all had the same sun, soil, wind and water in 
California. Hbw different the condition, of the four! 
What has brought about these- different conditions? 
Simply the difference in their thoughts- -the difference 
in the acts of choice which each one has made. 

RESULTS OF 
THINKING 

"Whatsoever a man thinketh in his heart, so is he,*' says 
an ancient book. So the Dhammapada, -aid to he the 
word of Buddha, says: "Whatsoever a man thinks, the 
result follows him like a shadow."' Thinking determines 

the effect of natural conditions upon the man. Think- 

determines how vibrations from the Without shall 

affed the Ego. Whatever the sensation, man. by Will 

■<<m\ the use of Suggestion, has the power to say of it: 

'"It i- -ood." 

FATE CAN BE 
CONTROLLED 

"AH ' s Good!" This Affirmation will change pain to 
pleasure; grief to joy; despair to peace. When feeling 
badly, dear reader, did you ever have some friend or 
some unexpected good come to you and thus change 
vour thought and send all bad conditions from you? 
( >nce from your mind, they were from your body. Did 
you ever have a pain and have it leave when your attri- 
tion was turned to something else? A common case is 
the departure of a toothache when the dentist's tools 

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are seen. This is all there is of hypnotism and all there 
is in the school of Mental Healing. By Suggestion, one 

is caused to think of something else and, when pain is 
forgotten, it does not exist. The strongest Sugg 
for the time rules the individual. Can we think pain, 
can we think health, whenever we choose? Yes. 
Each person has power, when he knows himself, ' 
what he shall feel and think. ( )therwise, he is a leaf on 
an infinite stream called ''Fate"; a machine wrought 
upon by some outside power. Within a certain limit, 
this power of choice and control is admitted. Now we 
remove all limitations, realizing that they are self-im- 
posed. Limitations are the direct results of ignorance. 
Man has the power of Self-Control. All one needs is to 
learn this as he has learned elsewhere, viz: — by experi- 
ence. 

That one may realize this power, it is necessary for him 
intelligently to apply the Law of Suggestion, lie ig- 
norantly applies it all the time. He should use the in- 
telligence the platform subject does when he sleeps at 
the word of the operator. 

A DEFINITION 

What is Suggestion? And what is a Suggestion? SUG- 
GESTION IS THAT WHICH CAUSES A SEJ 
TION OR A THOUGHT. A SUGGESTION IS 
ANYTHING USED WITH AN UNDERSTAND. 
ING OF ITS POWER TO PRODUCE A CERTAIN 
MENTAL RESULT WHEN ACCEPTED BY AN- 
l >THER PERSON. 

Suggestion is the objective side of life. The subjective 
is Affirmation. An Affirmation is a statement of 
Truth. Each person is controlled by his convictions of 
Truth. He cannot get away from these convictions. 
On arising in the morning, he sees a fog. The ther- 

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rnometer tells him it is 20 above zero These are *« 
tions and he says: "It is cold " ti, 

• ' b <-01(l. lis (U'ClMoll IQ -in \i 

finnation bom f the Su wstinn t>, c 

i i - ,. u 6sesuon. i lie Suereestion nm 

go for a December skate. Each makes his own world 
ge Suggestion awakens different thoughts in ' ' 
different emotions i„ each 

Suction being anything' from without coming to the 
consciousness, ,. follows that, when , person fcouires 
Power over himself so that he ignores , n,,l , ' ", 
fftionsand receives only those^e wishes^ h *has ac 

" be. He then rules the "Kingdom" within I ike a 
;^„ UnTT , l ' n "" without ""'> *a« which he choos 
^nVhtia^ """ Wtth the Credentials ° f * 

I AM POWER 

Subjectively, as a manifestation of Unity, man is po- 
**»> Power in every direction. In the objective ■ 
he « only unfolding that which he is in the S^thS 
«eing all potential power, why should he not affirm 
Aat power? Why limit the manifestation of the 
nmt- ■ , 'r> ', to * e ««« Power he has heretofore 

' ' ,'■'.;' ' S "° reaS ° n ' CXCC " t habit - Let him 

saj henceforth: "I am power! Since, by thinking 1 

^ve power to direct the manifestations of the subjec- 
veT will think power. I do that which I desire to 
do! He who will so affirm, will do. 



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POWER OF 
THOUGHT 

This Affinr.ation is Suggestion transmuted into Auto- 
suggestion. This is the power by which the conscious 
man can, at will, through desire and reason, control the 
manifestations of his life. Thought is power. It is the 
power the Individual uses to direct the Absolute power 
in which, he. as an Ego, as an individualized being, lives 
and moves.* 

[n Self-Suggestion, Auto-Suggestion or Affirmation 
(for they are all one), lies the Diamond Drill, the Pow- 
der, the Key, that the Book promised in the "Proem." 

SELF-ASSERTION 

Through the U^c of Affirmation, life can be made what 
one desires, because all conditions, whether of good or ill, 
are controlled by one's will, and the will works through 
Affirmation. Affirmation is the will in action, the Self 
asserting itself. Affirmation, which is the power the 
hypnotist uses, is the only power any one possesses. 
Self-assertion is the key to chaiacter. Affirmation, to 
lift one from conditions not desirable, must rest upon 
that arch of character whose keystone is Self-assertion. 
Without that mental characteristic, there can be no suc- 
cess in any direction. Therefore one Affirmation in- 
cludes all others — 'T AM!" The Affirmations that fol- 
low this, that mean the Victory of Self over Fate are, 
"I Can" and "I Do!" The Will that uses these is a cul- 
tivated and concentrated one. Will that is scattered 
over several Affirmations at the same time means con- 
stant failure. 



•The reader is referred to the author's work. "Man's Greatest 
Discovery," 25c for ;i discussion of this fact. 



THE "OPEN SESAME" 

We have now reached the word of power, have found 
he open Sesame' to the hidden treasure of the Soul 
ft is the word, CONCENTRATION; one thought at a 
time. I ay attention to what you arc thinking Vest this 
i- the recognized key to success. But it is also the key 
to the failures in health, business and happiness Worry 
anxiety, fear, -net. doubt, arc all evidences of concent 
tion. I he question turns on the kind of thoughts for 
concentration. Concentration upon th< wrong thoughts 
produces all the evil. Evil is the power of an uncon- 
trolled nnn.l. Hie business man in business concentra- 
tion has awakened genii that make him a slave Such 
concentration is not the key to Peace and Victory Con- 
ation is the -Open Sesame," but the treasure is 
not his until he learns not only t<. open hut also to clo«e 
the caye, not Only to release the genii, hut imprison them 
•it will. I.ie opposite of Concentration is as important 
as concentration. This [ s the "Letting Go," the Giving 
up, the Relaxing, the Changing, at will, the thought up- 
on which to concentrate. This is the secret of Success 
rnis is the power the Hypnotic subject pos He 

has Learned that which, when learned by any one will 
nheve lum of worry, fear, pain and disease, and will 
•Ten to him. while in the flesh, the door of Paradise. 
All this lies in those phenomena which have been used 
here *<>. f ore, generally to amuse or at best by physician 
to relieve pam. The application of the Law 'is as limit- 
5 as human experience. 

PHILOSOPHER'S 
STONE 

Voluntary Concentration upon a chosen thought is 
something better than the long sought "Philosopher's 



Stone." He who has acquired it. is Master. It is the 
secret of the power of hypnotic subject, of "Christian 
Science," and "Hindoo Fakir"; it underlies all occult 
phenomena of every name and is the secret of the suc- 
- of men in even- rank and walk of life. Is it worth 
attaining? [s it worth the time and effort? Can you 
afford to learn it? These are not questions for a wise 
man to consider. Can you afford not to have it Re- 
member, all possible power lies within the Ego, await- 
ing expression. The only safe ways of manifestation 
are those directed by Self. The more faith in Self, the 
more power. The) who have influenced the world have 
been those who had faith in themselves. Self-Assertion 
led to CONCEN1 RATION. The Affirmation of suc- 

has ever been. "I CANT' 
Here is the quatrain worth memorizing for the Philos- 
ophy of Life it contains. Jt is from Mrs. Helen \Yil- 
niaiis : 

"lie who dares assert the I, 

May calmly wait. 

While hurrying Fate 
Moots his demand with sure Supply." 
Outside Emerson's essay on "Self Reliance," no better 
words than these have been uttered. To that essay I 
recommend the reader as we turn to another phase of 
the subject. 

PROF. GATES' EVIDENCE 

"But what has this to do with Hypnotism?" will again 
1" asked. K\ crything. The phenomena under that 
name demonstrate the truth, of all this philosophy. My 
words are as true, based upon these phenomena, as are 
those in the works of physics in our schools. Like the 
physical scientist. I go to nature for my fact-. Telepathy 
has as clearly demonstrated Thought to be Force as have 
the experiments in the Laboratory demonstrated elec- 

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tricitj to be a mode of motion. Prof. Elmer Gates has 
demonstrated by chemistry that thoughts of envy jea 1 - 
ousy, hate, anger and all others we call evil, produce a 
poison in the system which ultimately causes disease 
Hiought controls bodily conditions. This again demon- 
strates the efficacy oi Mental Healing, 
Study the stage performance. Learn how to do it and 
then repeat it In your parlor, go farther and experiment 
upon yourself. Remove sensation from your body 
Pierce your arm with a needle without pain. " Watch the 
patient m the hospital as he submits to a surgical opera- 
tion with only Suggestion as an anesthetic and thus 
leam the meaning of Suggestion in daily life If the 
boy <.n the stage, the patient in the hospital, can at a 
word concentrate upon the thought of painlessness what 
is impossible through intelligent use of concentration in 
(l:nl - v llfe? rhc boy on the stage throws away the sold 
com saying, "Mot.- Later yon can see the blister upon 
his hand. Disease is created in the same way by think- 
m S ol lt Wave not these phenomena a meaning for 
each person? Nave they for you? What is the power 
thai produces such marvelous results? Merely the 
thought, the Affirmation, of the person: "It does not 
pain me': "] do not feel it"; "It is hot"; "It burns 

Til/' 



me 

PRIMAL 
MANIFESTATION 



Thoughts are equal in power because they are all from 
one source. They derive their power from the sub- 
conscious. The difference lies in the individual's pow- 
er of concentration. Whether it shall be directed upon 
one thought or diffused over many, is for each individ- 
ual to determine, and that determination controls the 
conditions of his life. 



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Remember. Suggestion is whatever causes an emotion 
or a thought; it will then be seen that it is an everpres- 
ent factor in life. No intellect is possible where Sug- 
gestion is not — no conscious manifestation of mind un- 
til Sug-gestion calls its latent faculties into expression. 
The primal manifestation of consciousness is a recogni- 
tion of Suggestion. Affirmation is a primal manifesta- 
tion of self-consciousness. This is why Affirmations, 
or, what is the same thing, convictions of truth, govern 
life. Truth is only the Affirmative of existence as in- 
terpreted by the individual who affirms. 
Each individual is therefore subject to Suggestions from 
without, until he shall learn, by experience, his power 
of choice. That power of choice can be developed only 
through doing and this doing we call experience. Each 
one has the power of Affirmation ; and in the power of 
choosing Affirmations, lies the power of creating Des- 
tiny as desired. Fate ceases where choice begins. De- 
sire, through choice, becomes master of life. 

OBJECTIVE LIFE 

All things center in the simple fact of sensation — I feel, 
and its corollary, because I feel, I think. Now affirm, 
would you be master, "I have learned what to think 
that I may feel what I choose, and I have learned 
not to feel or think that which I do not wish to feel or 
think.'' In this development is seen the necessity of the 
objective life. It awakens the Ego into a consciousness 
of itself. Without the objective, no manifestation of 
life; there would be only the possibility of life. Thus 
are the subjective and the objective one. They cannot 
be separated. And without argument, it is here affirmed 
that they are one forever. 

It has already been asserted that each person has the 
power of choosing and of ignoring Suggestions. One 

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can at will determine his life. At will is used under- 
standingly, rhese two words arc mighty. When this 

Statement is seen to be truth, it will also he seen that 
tins is the most important fact mankind has u -t found. 
Its significance cannot he measured for a century. Thi< 
is the statement: When man knows his power, Tie will 
never more he the slave of circumstances. He will 

mould circumstances to his x „ii. This is demonstrated 
by the simple phenomenon of the hypnotist's suggestion 
to his subjects. "You cannot open your hand."' The 
hand remains fast because the Suggestion, taken as 
truth, becomes in him an Affirmation. lie says: "J 
cannot open my hand." His saying so makes it'impos- 
iiblc tor him to open the hand until he .shall say. 
can." This demonstrates the powei of concentrator 
Ihe subject concentrates his mind upon the thought, '"I 
can't open my hand." Since Thought is power. Thought 
holds his hand fast. lie simply concentrates upon the 
thought and lets Thought, as a vibration from the In- 
finite One. have its wax with his hand. It is a scien- 
tific demonstration of the Affirmation, "As a man think- 
eth in his heart, s,, is he." It also demonstrates some- 
thing as important, that which makes the Principles un- 
derlying the fact practical: A MAX CAN THINK 
WHATEVER Ilk: WISHES, AND CAN MAKE 
THAT THOUGHT A REALITY IX THE o\\\\ 
TIVE UFE. 

SOURCE OF 
POWER 

I his is the key to human destiny. This is the most im- 
portant fact man has ever discovered. It means the 
evolution of all that now is into something beyond the 
dream of poet or the vision of seer. Each man can af- 
firm and be that which he wishes to be. All he has to 

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do is to follow the lead of the hypnotic subject and 
choose, at will, the view of Truth that is to him most 
desirous, and then hold the chosen view in concentrated 

attention as the subject does — let it control him. The 
pqwer of Thought is limitless. 

All power comes from the sub-conscious. This sub-con- 
scions is the Human Soul, the Ego. It docs nothing that 

is not willed by the Conscious mind. The Snh-conscious 
is to the Conscious man the only fountain of power, in- 
telligence, and love. The conscious man controls the 
expression of this fountain by his Will. To learn how 
to Will is the most important thing in education. When 
one has so trained his Will that it will seize upon a 
chosen thought with the same tenacity that it seizes in 
ordinary men upon a thought horn of chance Sugges- 
tion, and will hold that chosen thought as long and as 
persistently as does he whose body fails under the un- 
welcome strain of worry, anxiety, fear, sorrow, remorse, 
and kindred conditions, then is that individual Self- 
Centered, Self- Poised, Self-Controlled. He will then 
hold closely thoughts of pleasure, success and health as 
realities; be the master of conditions. This is the con- 
dition temporarily of the hypnotic subject. It can be the 
permanent condition in life, and will he his who chooses 
determinedly what Affirmation to make and what sen- 
sations shall he horn of the Suggestions that come to 
him from the objective life. The hypnotic subject has 
this power; he can accept or reject Suggestions. When 
the operator says ''hot," he can Laugh or can say "cold"; 
and what he says is so to him. He has then, and ever 
has. his choice. lie chooses to accept the Suggestion of 
operator as Truth, and so choosing, he affirms that this 
dollar is hot and the thought produces the sensation of 
burning', and will, if persisted in, raise a blister. 

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THE LAW 
OF LIFE 

This is the real, constant condition of every man. He 
accepts the Suggestions of the weather, business, social 

life, of economic, political, bodily and financial condi- 
tions and says "Yes" to them and affirms that he is cold 
or hot, prosperous or unlucky, well or ill, happy or mis- 
erable. Lonesome or contented, that times are good or 
hard, and they are as he affirms. Life is to him only a 
Li$1 of Affirmations born in the Suggestions of the ex- 
ternal world or from experiences which, by Affrmation, 
become again realities. These conditions are produced 
in him just as they are produced in the hypnotic sub- 
ject. The Law i^ one. just as the flash of the electric 
spark in the laboratory is one with the lightning's flash. 
But there is this differenee. The flash in the Laboratory 
is under control of an intelligent Will and does a lire- 
determined work. That in the bolt from the cloud has 
no conscious Will to guide it but follows the law of the 
Absolute, and it may destroy. So with Thought in the 
ordinary affairs of life. It works its way without being 
understood ami directed: it tears down as well as builds 
When one -hall learn to choose and to direct, as 
the subject on the platform has learned to do, then all 
Thought will be chosen to build up and to make happy. 
Suggestion itself is merely a blind vibration. Feeling 
is a blind, unintelligent response; but Affirmation is the 
act of a Soul, is the choice of an individual. To the ex- 
tent that one exercises consciously this power of choice 
in his Affirmations, does he develop the one feature 
that distinguishes him from the brute and which makes 
him man — and that is the power of Self-control. 



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SELF-PROTECTION 

That any one has consciously, even for a short time, ex- 
ercised his power of choice in his Affirmations proves 
that it is possible for every one to do so. As the sub- 
ject can, by his Will, make his body insensible to the 
prick of a pin, so may every person become insensible 
to pain. As one person can master, through necessitv, 
a condition of weakness by an Affirmation, as in case 
of a mother when sick but recovering when her child 
is injured, so may all become immune to disease by re- 
fusing to receive a Suggeston that will result in disease. 
Your body is your castle. Xo vibration can enter it ex- 
cept through your neglect or by your invitation. Vibra- 
tions affect only body ; they have no power over the 
Soul. Nothing touches the Soul except as the Soul 
through its will permits it. When anything is felt, one 
should refuse to think of it and should call the Will into 
activity and hold a pleasant thought instead. Then has 
the vibration done its work of creating happiness. Al- 
low it to awaken a thought of pain and allow the Will 
to hold that thought of pain and disease results. 

THE UNITY 
OF POWER 

To attain this power, study the conditions necessary for 
the subject to receive his Suggestions and cultivate them 
until you can suggest and affirm to yourself that which 
you desire. All vibrations are merely vibrations until, 
through sensation, they are converted into Thought, 
just as vibrations of light that do not reach the eye arc 
only vibrations of light, so we can close sensation to 
those which produce pain or sorrow ; and then for us 
pain and sorrow will not exist. Thus is life made one 
continual round of peace. Study these phenomena la- 
beled "Hypnotic" just as the phenomena of lightning 

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have been studied, and the results will be, to him who 
studies ami demonstrates, similar to those that have fol- 
lowed in the wake of "Spiritualism," "Christian," "l)i 
vine," and •■.Mental" Science and the various schools 
of magnetic healing and metaphysics. All these arc 
demonstrating some of the infinite possibilities that lie 
in Suggestion and its counterpart. Affirmation. 

NOT OPERATOR'S 

WILL 

Whatever may have been the past Opinion, or whatever 

he that of many now to the contrary, it is not the Will 

of the- operator that produces the phenomena of h\p- 

notism. It is the concentrated Will of the subject. This 

fact is one that will, when its significance is understood, 

revolutionize all thinking and living and lift this studs, 

now ignored by the cultured, into the first place in the 

Philosophy and the Art of Living. 

The only principle concerned in the phenomena is the 

constant one of concentration upon an Affirmation that 

is the result of a chosen Suggestion. Three words form 

the shibboleth of the \ew Thought (which means the 

New Civilization), viz: SUGGESTION, AFFIRMA- 
TION, ami CONCENTRATION. Understanding these, 

forms the true Science of Mind; properly using them, 
constitutes the Art of Living. 

POWER OF 
WILL 

The stud}' of Suggestion removes from the mind all fear 
of evil i esults from the control of one mind over anoth- 
er, for such control is impossible. The Will can be used 
only b\ the individual upon himself. This is an import- 
ant tact in this study. The person of the cultivated 
Will, the person of Concentration, always has the ad- 

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vantage of the one of diffused Will. Leaders, com- 
manders, 1 losses, masters, operators in Suggestion, all 
owe their position to the fact that they use their Will 
upon themselves and give the Suggestions that will pro- 
duce, when accepted by those of less concentration, the 
desired mental conditions. It is not a question of "can" 
or "can not" in the battle of life: it is the "will" and 
''will not." The healthful and successful WILL health 
and success. The others do not use what they possess 
in like proportion. All have equal power to do. It is 
the difference between doing and not doing. 
The subject has learned to choose and to will himself 
into acceptance of the Suggestion for the time being, 
knowing that he can, at any time, will himself not to ac- 
cept it. Having accepted it, it rules him. He has learned 
to lay it aside at will. 

UNTRAINED 
WILL 

Xow, even a good Suggestion, if held too long, maw un- 
der changed condtions, become bad and produce ill ef- 
fects, because the person has not developed the power 
to control his will. Yv\ has never brought it into obedi- 
ence to his thought. He has not taught his Will to dis- 
miss, at the proper moment, from his mind the sugges- 
tion that has once found lodgment there. His mind is 
so obsessed by the suggestion which he has once enter- 
tained that it can neither dismiss it. now that it has lie- 
come injurious, nor admit a better suggestion that may 
present itself. It is of the utmost importance that vou 
should be able not only to admit a suggestion but also 
to dismiss it at will. 



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ACTIONS 

So important is the fact thai the subject is controlled only 
by his own will that, even at the risk of repetition, I wish 

to emphasize it. No person acts under the will of an- 
other. Even the hypnotic subject acts fundamentally 

under his own will because be lias willed to submit to 
the commands of another, and has, at every moment, the 
power to accept or reject the commands laid upon him. 
I trust that ibis is so clearly seen that no reader of this 
book will hereafter claim that one person acts under the 
will of another, but that each reader will affirm that 
cry person acts that which he wills to act. 

HYPNOTISM 
INNOCUOUS 

This fart understood, away goes the fear of hypnotism 

and all belief that one person can hypnotize another to 
commit crime. This is a groundless fear, a fear that 
arises in ignorance. 'Idle editor of the "Suggester and 
Thinker.*' in a recent number of his magazine, says of 
this belief in the evil of hypnotism: "It originated in 
fancy alone and belongs to the age of superstition, dark 
ness and witchcraft and cannot exist today upon any 
legitimate grounds." 

Every Suggestion that is repugnant to a person is by 
him rejected. This principle of Self-Protection is the 
most deep-seated in our lives. Ever alert to protect 
against danger are all the instincts of man. In this Art 
the reason is never appealed to. Should one attempt to 
reason with the subject to induce him to accept a Sug- 
gestion, every condition of acceptance would be des- 
troyed. Perfect tranquillity of mind is the necessary 
condition for hypnosis. This tranquillity can be obtained 
only through consent of the subject. Consequently, 
whenever a Suggestion given antagonizes the Will or 

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Conscience of the subject, he passes out of the condition 
of subject and is under the control of his own Auto- 
Suggestion. It is utterly impossible for a person to ac- 
cept another's Suggestion to perform an act which his 
conscience does not approve and which he would not 

freely do at his own suggestion. 

"his fact is well known to practitioners in Suggestion 
and to all careful investigators. Each person controls his 
own life at all times. He does nothing that he does not 
will to do. The only way one can be brought to do that 
which he has previously willed against is not by using 
hypnosis, but by using, when he is in a normal condi- 
tion, the ordinary Suggestions in persuasion, argument 
or command. All of these are powerless in hypnosis. 

SAFETY OF 
HYPNOSIS 

In hypnosis, the frontal brain of the subject is, to a 
greater or less degree, inactive, and that portion of the 
brain, the cerebellum, most closely connected with the 
Ego, is most active. When conversing with a person in 
hypnosis, that is, with a somnambule, it is with the Ego, 
through the sympathetic nervous system, that all our 
conversation is carried on. One converses thus with the 
spirit of the man, and talks to the seat of moral con- 
sciousness. Conscience is supreme. Any Suggestion 
given to the Ego that runs counter to conscience is im- 
mediately repelled. An antagonistic Suggestion insist- 
ed upon will awaken the subject. A person in hypnosis 
is in the state most safe from evil Suggestions, for 
here all the external glamour is removed and only the 
enormity of such a Suggestion is present to the soul. 
Here lie the great possibilities of this Art in the re- 
demption of man. From this source come the cures in 
all the fields of healing. The Soul is stimulated on the 

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way it desires to go. The operator, the teacher and 
the healer are helping the evolution of the Ego by open- 
ing to it the possibilities of the objective life. Illustia- 
tions of this fact frequently occur in my classes. I had 
a fine subject and, causing him to see a lizard, told him 
to take it up. lie would not. 1 insisted. This caused 
him to awaken with a start. Another fine fellow was 
asleep. 1 Suggested that, as we were on the street, we 
go in a saloon and get a glass of beer. "No, sir! 1 don't 
drink heer." "But come, you must." He awoke with a 
start. "What awakened you:" 1 asked. "1 don't know, 
hut some one hit me," was the reply. The impact of the 
two wills — his will and mine, for he willed against 
me — was to him like a blow. 

SELF-HYPNOSIS — 
DEGREES OF 

\ow that hypnotism is being made the excuse for 
wrong doing, when the press is telling of persons mai- 
rying, stealing and committing all sorts of crime be- 
cause they were hypnotized, it is well to dwell upon the 
impossibility of this so that all may feed hereafter that 
it offers no excuse for any evil. None can hide under 
this cloak. All these reported cases, if they are facts, 
are cases of Auto-Suggestion — of Self-Hypnotism. 
This is the condition in which all persons are whenever 
an abnormal condition is encouraged. If a woman 
thought a man was hypnotizing her and concentrated 
her mind upon that thought, she would pass into this 
condition through self-hypnotism, although the man not 
only had no desire to hypnotize her but was even un- 
conscious of her existence. The press, by telling these 
stories, creates these imagined conditions in susceptible 
persons. Past education has developed a feeling- ot 
non-responsbility and fear in the indivdual which pre- 

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" in nun iiiiiiiiiiii i mi in n i mi i iiiii minimi nlin.1....!.... I 



pares him to receive these Suggestions from the press 
and eon vert them into Auto-Suggestions and give them 
thus control over their lives. Herein lies the great evil 
of press reports of crime. 

INVOLUNTARY 
SUGGESTION 

From self weakness, therefore, comes the present fear 
of hypnotism. No person of self-reliance will claim to 
be hypnotized to do a foolish or an evil thing. The 
weak and the silly, the very ones that have not concen- 
tration enough to be hypnotized by an operator, are the 
ones constantly susceptible to self-hypnotism. They are 
constantly receiving Suggestions from the crowd they 
are in. They thus become the tool of the fashions, fads 
and follies of the day. They are the ones who need 
most to place themselves under the care of a good oper- 
ator and, through his instructions, learn to concentrate 
and to protect themselves from the consequences of 
their willing but ignorant acceptance of Suggestions. 
Involuntary Suggestion, involuntary concentration, in- 
voluntary and unconscious choice, are to be avoided. 
When one has learned the Art of Suggestion, he knows 
too well the power of a Suggestion of evil ; for, whether 
it is accepted by the subject or not, if he has given it 
with a desire to work evil, that evil will work in him- 
self and as surely follow him as his shadow. No per- 
son is so chary of Suggestions which are not of good as 
one who has practiced the Art. 

PRESS LIBELS 

The daily press is scattering broadcast the seeds of this 
belief and fear in stories born in the brain of the report- 
er. The}- are his interpretation of facts. They are nev- 
er sustained by the opinions of experts. When the rc- 

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ported cases of evil arc investigated, they are not sus- 
tained by evidence. 

It has been reported that hypnotism has been made the 
plea of extenuation in courts. Never has a criminal 
been condemned, or a person acquitted, in this country 

upon the plea of hypnotism. Never has any judge con- 
sidered such a plea. 1 will cite only one typical case. 
ies it- round in the p' ral times a year. Con- 

cerning it. 1 give a- high an authority as exists upon 
the matter. Chief Justice Albert II. HortOn, of the 
Kansas Supreme Court, in an address reported in the 
"State Journal" (Topeka), for April the 6th, 1<S!»:>, 
pays: "In affirming the conviction of Gray, no new doc- 
trine was announced, no new rule of evidence estab- 
lished. Hypnotism ZVOS not considered nor ruled upon 
in any way. The reports are therefore wholly unfound- 
ed." But Judge Horton's statement is ignored and the 
lie of a reporter is made the hasis for creating fear hy 
teacher, preacher and editor. 

EVIL 
ADVERTISEMENTS 

But more injurious than the press reports are some of 
the advertisements of the teachers and schools in which 
the woid-. "secret power," "subtle power," and others 
are used to convey the idea that they have something 
mysterious and hidden and that the possession of this 
something will enable it- possessor to influence any 
person to do his will, and will enable a graduate of their 
school to win easily everything he wishes in the battle 
of life. These claims are false. They mislead. No such 
power exists. All persons may cultivate and attain all 
that is claimed for "Hypnotism" and "Personal Mag- 
netism" by a simple application of this Law of Sug- 



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The Soul of man is perfect. All Souls are alike. Each 
contains a spark of Infinity. All that any one needs is 
to let the god in him (the good in him) manifest. Sug- 
gestion opens the way. There is no patent right held 
by any person, or any class of persons, upon any meth- 
od of this unfoldment. No method is universal. No 
limitations are possible. All is one principle. The prin- 
ciple of Suggestion is limitless and its methods will be 
adapted to the time and place. Once understand the 
,aw of Suggestion, the Principle of Concentration, and 
you have entered the Holy of Holies ; have the key to 
all the ancient mysteries; have knowledge of the way 
to the Occult Powers of the Soul. 

SELF-PROTECTION 

There are schools and teachers that advertise their abil- 
ity to impart the power of "protection" against evil in- 
fluences. Especially is this true of those who gather 
the press reports of the evils of hypnotism. With this 
claim they induce people to become their pupils. "Pro- 
tection ' from what? The Ego is all powerful. The 
only evil is ignorance. The only safeguard is knowl- 
edge. Knowledge of what? Of Self. No person can 
ho protected from his thoughts. He must protect him- 
self. All the possible evils there are in Suggestion are 
those that lie in thinking. A person must think. Now 
think no evil and none is possible. 

PERSONAL 
RESPONSIBILITY 

Thought is creative. It creates every condition in lite 
What shall I think ? is the supreme queston that con- 
cerns every man. What are the results of thoughts and 
how are thoughts controlled? should be his questions. 

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\<> power, no statute law con protect a man from him- 
self. Neither can they change him or canst- him to 
think to order. As long as he fears, he must suffer the 
effects of fear; as long as he thinks pain, he must suf- 
fer pain; as Long as he thinks he must be protected, he 
will be weak and will not protect himself from self 
created evils. 

Each person is responsible to himself for the thoughts 
he encourages. He cannot escape the results of his own 
thinking. If he will not keep harmful thoughts, "tramp 
thoughts/' from his mind, he must take the conse- 
quences oi such company. 

The School of Suggestion is the University of the Soul. 
All other schools are of the intellect. This school opens 
the door through which to reach the Ego itself. None 
othci is equal to it. 

MISREPRESENTATION 

Telepaihy is now brought in as a ground for fear an i 
people are warned in adverisements to go to certain 
teacher> of hypnotism that they may learn to protect 
themselves from the evil thoughts of others. "This 
mysterious silent power," one advertisement reads. 1 
affirm postively that it is more difficult to influence 
one silently to do what is not in harmony with his own 
thought than it i< by oral Suggestion. A Suggestion 
is at all times a Suggestion. Its effect is the same 
whether given orally or telepathically. Those that do 
not conflict with desire, will or conscience will he 
readily received when silently given. It then docs not 
meet with the intellectual limitations that are often put 
upon it when conveyed orally. But positively I repeat: 
no Suggestion repugnant to a person will be received 
telepathically. It falls as unnoticed, as harmless, as 
buckshot on an iron-clad. 

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THOUGHT 
HARMONY 

When n thought is sent that meets with acceptance in 
the person to whom directed, then it will, if conditions 
are favorable, be responded to in action. A case in il- 
lustration :— A friend and I were riding in the street- 
car, and, as we were about to pass the home of a lady 
friend, my companion remarked: ''I wonder if Mrs. 
B. will see us?" I thought it not likely. But, as the 
car stopped at the crossing, she came to the window 
and recognized us. Later we enquired why she came 
and she said : "While standing overseeing my dinner. I 
felt to go to the window." Our thpught had reached 
her and, being a pleasant one, and her mind not being 
concentrated upon anything in particular, she was ready 
to respond. Had her mind been occupied with some 
necessary thought, or had our thought been unpleasant, 
she would not have responded. 

AUTHORITIES 

( )perators in I [ypnotism are unanimous in the assertion 
that no evils result from it. Earlier authorities think 
it "possible," but give no instances. Later ones declare 
that it is not possible. T. J. Hudson, the author of "The 
Law of Psychic Phenomena." says in a magazine arti- 
cle: "That hypnotism and its chief handmaiden, Sug- 
-tion. have been proven to be an unalloyed blessing to 
millions of the human race, can not be successfully con- 
troverted." Hudson Turtle, as good an authority as 
there is in the ranks of Spiritualism, says of the trance 
which, he calls "The Hypnotic State": ''There is noth- 

Ibig in the trance which affects the physical senses; on 
intrary, il gives them rest similar to normal sleep." 
Of all the European and American authorities that I 
have been able to find, none report any instance' of evil 



results. American Operators who have hypnotized 
thousands and have seen some persons used as subjects 
for many years are most positive as to its harmlessness. 
The best authorities are those who, from the platform, 
give exhibitions, for they meet all classes and have the 
most extended practice. 1 have never conversed with 
one whose experience has not been that of my own, 
which is, that we can not cause a subject to do that 
which he wills not to do. or that which is morally re- 
pellent to him. 

TESTIMONIES 

Professor A. K. Carpenter, who probably has had as 
large an experience in this line as any living operator, 
told me twenty years ago that such was his experience. 
Professoi Caldwell, one of the well known operators 
twenty years ago, told me the same. Professor Connet 
SO taught his pupil-. Mis j aw was: "You can not cause 
a pupil to work against his will, against his conscience, 
or to injure his person or his property. " 
11. I,. Flint, as well known upon the hypnotic stage as 
any person in the Mississippi Valley, in a late interview 
reported in the press, said, in reply to the question as 
to whether or not a man can be hypnotized to commit 
crime. "I should -ay unconditionally, \\o! When under 
hypnotic influence, the subject's moral sensibilities are 
more acute than in the normal state and often, when in 
hypnosis, he cannot be made to do those little pecca- 
dillos that he will do when normal. It is correct to say 
that he will never do anything that he will not do at any 
other time, as far as his moral nature is concerned. " 
Thomas L. Adkin, dean of the New York Institute of 
Physicians and Surgeons, says in an article in 
Practical Psychology. — ''I have hypnotized in pub- 
lic and in private about 15,000 people. I have seen 

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fully 25,000 people under hypnosis in the past fourteen 
years. I have never seen the slightest harmful results. 
Anyone who has had any practical experience with the 
subject is well aware that no harm can be done by hyp- 
notic Suggestion. . . I was a subject myself for five 
years; was hypnotized thousands of times and, if harm- 
ful results were produced, I am not aware of it. . . 
I know a subject who has been hypnotized twenty or 
thirty times every night by different public hypnotists 
for the past twenty-five years, and he is just as sound 
mentally and physically as he ever was. . . To hyp- 
notize a man, you ask him to think a certain way; or, 
in other words, ask him to concentrate his mind upon 
a certain subject. Xow, then, if it does not injure one 
to think, it does not injure one to be hypnotized." 
This is the testimony of experts and will close the case 
with every reader of this book. 

SELF-SUGGESTION 

Another phase of Suggestion, intensifying the position 
1 have already taken, is that reported of several who 
have acquired a development of Auto-Suggestion so 
that, without operator, they can throw themselves at 
will into all the conditions they have seen produced in 
subjects. The press has recently told of a man who 
permits his flesh to be pierced without feeling pain. Any 
person can do this when he has overcome the fear of 
pain. Man\- of my students do it. By Self-Suggestion, 
they can produce any chosen phenomenon by simply 
thinking, "It is so!" thus demonstrating that it is the 
subject, not the operator, that does the work. 
This power, when developed and rightly applied, lifts 
one out of any undesirable condition and enables him 
to make life each day, in body and in estate, to his or- 
der. For thought is creative, and whatever a man 

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builds in his thought and concentrate upon lie will 
surely realize m his objective Inc. This is the Univer- 
sal Law. 

THE ONE LAW 

The classic statement of this Law is: 

I AM THAT WHICH I THINK I AM. Thought IS 

P° wer ' N " 11 Should realize this and then direct your 

thought to build according to your desire. Otherwise 

u will run riot, as it does i,, most f us now. You must 
bring your undirected thought, which is ,„.w harmful 
to you, under the control of your will in order that it 
ma) work t<> your good. 

POST-HYPNOTISM 

\ ery convincing of tin truth of our theory, are the phe- 
nomena called "Post llypnoticT While in hypnosis a 
buggestlOU IS given the subject that he will, al a certain 
future time, do a certain thin- This also, through 
misunderstanding, has given rise to fears that the great 
sons from it are not perceived. For illustration- A 
young man while asleep in my class was told that when 
he awok,- he would i\n<\ an unnamed article which the 
gentleman who gave the Suggestion had hidden. The 
young man awoke, took part in the exercises of the 
class tor over an hour. Suddenly he went to a lady and 
asked her tor the nickel she had. "What nickel?" 
Looking very stupid, he said, "1 don't know. I only 
felt to ask yon." She gave him the nickel which the 
gentleman had previously given her. 

A DEEPER 
LESSON 

Post-Hypnotic Suggestions can he carried out only on 
the plane of the intelligence or the conscience of the 

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subject, for these are the ever-present factors with which 
he deals. It is impossible to execute a post-hyprfotic 
Suggestion which conflicts with the intelligence, prej- 
udices, will or conscience of the subject. Consequent- 
ly, the operator, in giving post-hypnotic, as well as oth- 
er, Suggestions, is compelled to act within the limits 
of his subject's intelligence, conscience, prejudices, and 
will. But a deeper lesson is here. Xo thought is ever 
received by a mind that does not remain there to in- 
fluence future conduct. The words of the teacher, the 
admonition of the mother, the advice of the father, the 
loving greeting of a friend, all, like post-hypnotic Sug- 
gestions, fall into the subconscious storehouse to influ- 
ence future conduct. Let no person be discouraged be- 
cause it seems his efforts for good are lost. Xo word 
that is upward tending is ever lost. It is a seed-thought 
of power sown in the soul. Sleeping or waking, words 
of love or truth react upon the Ego and bring forth 
fruit. "My word shall not return to me void," said the 
old prophet. 

"One accent of the Holy Ghost 
The heedless world hath never lost." 
Dy the use of this principle of Suggestion, every latent 
power of the mind can be stimulated. It is the most 
potent and successful method of education. The reten- 
tion by the mind of each Suggestion given it and the 
ability to intensify this impression by first rendering 
the intellect non-resitant by repose, offer the teacher an 
opportunity, by making Suggestions in the line of the 
ideal, such as is found in no other system of education. 

THOUGHT 
SEEDS 

Suggestions given in sleep are retained. Like seeds in 
the ground awaiting spring, rains and sun, they lie in 

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the subconscious, reach to spring into activity at the 

first opportunity. This is the reason why .Mental Heal- 
ing is so successful. This explains the cures by Sug- 
gestive Therapeutics. Post-Hypnotic Suggestion is the 

best method to cure all such vices as intemperance, pro 
fanity, worry, fear and licentiousness. All lite., health 
and power within the Soul lie open to Suggestions giv- 
en in sleep. To utilize this knowledge with children 
w ill hapten the "New Day." 

SUGGESTIONS 
DURING SLEEP 

Tlu- healing power of Suggestion during sleep is well 
known to practitioners of Suggestive Therapeutics. It- 
possibilities in the cure oi habits are beginning to be 
knowa The mother has, ii, the Law of Suggestion, 

power to wield lor the intellectual and moral develop- 
ment of her child whih ii lies sleeping. By its use, she 
can then sow in the subconsciousness of her child the 
germ-thoughts of any study, can correct any habit, can 
awaken any slumbering power and can lead it in the way 
of her ideal. She has only to use this Art to make her 
home an Eden. 

INCIDENTS 

A young man. one of my subjects, was complaining 

that he could not perform his problems in mathematics. 
When he was asleep, 1 suggested to him that he was 
now in the Divine Mind and could learn and master the 
Law of Numbers and that he would do so. before he 
awoke, he solved the problems and had no further trou- 
ble in the study. Had he dreamed this out in his ordi- 
nary sleep, it would have been a somewhat common oc- 
currence. In fact, hypnotic and ordinary sleep are iden- 
tical. They differ only in the way in which they are 

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produced. So he did in hypnosis, at will, only what oth- 

are doing without the knowledge of the Law. 
I asked a lady to go to sleep and find a lost article. She 
did so. ( )thers go to sleep and dream of finding lost 
articles. In her case, advantage was taken of the Law 
of Suggestion and at will >he slept and found. A young 
man said that he was trying to invent a certain machine 
that puzzled him. I placed him in Hypnosis and said : 
"Now you are in the Divine .Mind where all machines 
lie. Find that which you wish. If it is possible, you 
can find it." In a few minutes he said: "How simple 
that is." "Remember it when you are awake," was my 
command. Me did so; it was a success. "A dream," 
one says. Ves, but a dream induced at will. 
A lady was puzzling over an essay. In hypnosis, she 
found and. on awaking, wrote what she found. A lad;.' 
was to take part in a concert but was full of fear. In 
hypnosis I suggested that she was confident of success 
and would, in the joy of the occasion, lose all fear. She 
enjoyed the evening. This condition can be readily 
cultivated so that one can bring from the subconscious, 
at will, any desired manifestation of Truth. A student 
of mine suggested that he would awaken in the morning 
with the material of a sketch that he had for some time 
wished to write. The morning brought the sketch. A 
student who had newer written a poem thought that he 
would try Suggestion. Upon retiring at night, he con- 
centrated upon the affirmation: "I will awaken and 
write a poem in the morning." Earlier than usual, he 
arose and the poem wrote itself. Thus will a knowl- 
edge of Suggestion lead the Conscious man to direct the 
manifestation of the Eero in his daily life. 



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SUGGESTION 
UNIVERSAL 

This understanding of Suggestion explains the phe- 
nomena called "occult" and "spiritual." It explains the 
wonder- of the Hindoo fakir and Buddhist priest, of 
Egyptian hierophant and Grecian sybil, of Roman 
seer and Mohammedan shiek, of mediaeval occultist 
and modern evangelist, of medium and clairvoyant, of 
psychometrist and hypnotic subject, of Christian Sci- 
ence, of Mental Science, and of the magnetic healer. 
All these find in Concentration under the Law of Sug- 
gestidn their power. In the knowledge and applica- 
tion of this I, aw lies the future evolution of man. Some 
idea of what lies within the possibilities of Suggestion 
may he obtained from the consideration of the fact that 
the greatest re form movement during the last century, 
if not for several centuries, arose from its application, 
namely, "Metaphysical" healing. Under "Metaphysical" 
healing we include all forms of suggestive therapeutics, 
known under a great variety of names, such as New 
Thought, Mental healing, Divine healing, Divine sci- 
ence. Truth Students. Christian Science, Stfggestive 
Therapeutics, and the like, all of which derive their ef- 
ficiency from their use of the Law of Suggestion. 

HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT 
OF THE LAW OF SUGGESTION 

Tt is interesting to trace the recent history of the devel- 
opment of this Law of Suggestion, which is the present- 
day form of Hypnotism. We can trace its theoretical, 
or philosophic, side from the philosophy of Emerson, 
and its practical side from the feats of Mesmer, through 
the theory and practice of Andrew Jackson Davis, and 
then through the phenomena of Spiritualism into all 

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the cults which today may be grouped under the head 
"New Thought," or "Metaphysical." 

EMERSON'S 

PHILOSOPHY 

Ralph Waldo Emerson in his Essays gave expression 

to that philosophy which has ramified into so many 

practical movements, all of which may be designated as 

"\c\\ Thought," or "Metaphysical." 

MESMERISM, 
ANIMAL MAGNETISM 

Although Hypnotism had been practiced for centuries 
under various forms in many occult religions or cults, 
for our purpose we need not go back beyond Mesmer. 
Hypnotism, as he practiced it, was called Mesmerism. 
Its theories and the practice of them were gradually 
enlarged and improved. It was also called "Animal 
Magnetism.*' Under this name it began to be frequent- 
ly used in healing disease. From "Animal Magnetism," 
as practiced by the famous Dr. Quimby, of Portland, 
Me., two movements arose, one including all the forms 
of present-day metaphysical healing, or suggestive ther- 
apeutics, the other known as Christian Science. The 
former of these was developed chiefly through the writ- 
ings of Dr. W. F. Evans, who was one of Dr. Quim- 
students. In the course of a few years this move- 
ment has been split up into a large number of inde- 
pendent cults under various names, * such as New 
Thought. Metaphysical healing, Divine healing, Spirit- 
ual healing, .Mental healing. Suggestive Therapeutics, 
and so forth. They arc ail alike in principle, and dif- 
fer only in their methods. 









HARMONIAL 
PHILOSOPHY 

Andrew Jackson Davis made a wide application of his 
philosophy to healing and other demonstrations of life 
in his system which he called "Harmonial Philosophy.'' 
While a little boy. having never read through a single 
book, Davis became a hypnotic subject and from this 
developed into a wonderful teacher. Through the hyp- 
notic trance, subconsciousness was awakened and, in 
this state, be gave the lectures published under the ti- 
tle. "Nature's Divine Revelations." 

Davis SOOn grew into an independence of his operators 
and developed what he calls the "Superior Condition," 
a better name than the phrase now in common use: % 'ln 
the Silence." 

SPIRITUALISM 

The next step in advance is found in the movement 
called Spiritualism, which was a further development 
of the principles and practice of Davis. Spiritualism, 
through it- magnetic healers and clairvoyants, gave a 
great impetus to "spiritual" and "mental" healing. 

CHRISTIAN 
SCIENCE 

Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy was, in her early career, a Spir- 
itualist Medium. Dr. Quimby, of Maine, had, from his 
stndie> in Suggestion, then called ''Animal Magnet- 
ism," discovered that disease is a belief. He developed 
a system of mental treatment. .Mrs. Eddy, then Mrs. 
Baker, was a patient and a student under Dr. Quimby. 
This was her start. 

Accepting in its essentials the practice of Dr. Quimby, 
she denied the Law of Suggestion, although basing all 
her practice on it. In the place of this fundamental law 

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•he put her interpretation of the Bible, which she 
worked out into an extensive system, which she ealled 

Christian Science. Her interpretation of Scripture may 
be original, but there is no originality in her practice, 
for it is nothing more nor less than an application of 
the Law of Suggestion. 

WHAT OF 
THE FUTURE? 

Such movements, resulting in so great blessings, af- 
fecting every avenue of modern thought and activity, 
are only prophecies of what shall be when Suggestion 
is generally understood. Enough has been accom- 
plished to warrant all the assertions made in this book 
of its future use. We have now only to learn the Law 
and its mode of operation and then to take the same ad- 
vantage of it that has been taken of other Laws, to 
make living a Fine Art. 

LIFE A FINE ART 

To live conscious of one's power; to understand the 
principle of Concentration and apply it ; to understand 
the Law of Suggestion and make it a servant of Will ; 
to affirm each day that which is desired as the only re- 
ality, this is to be an artist in life. To all who do this, 
Living has become A FINE ART. It is the object of 
this hook to help its readers to become such artists. The 
whole secret lies in DOING. Many read New Thought 
literature and think that, as the schoolboy attains 
knowledge of letters and memorizes geographical 
names, they can attain this power of self-control. Not 
so! It comes, as comes the ability of the artist to handle 
the chisel and hammer in bringing the statue from the 
marble; as comes the power of the architect to place 
on paper the structure already in his mind ; the power 

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of the mechanic to build a machine that he sees only In 
possibility; the power of expression that enables the 

poet to place in ever living words the bright ideal of 
beaut} that haunts him. All these grasped the princi- 
ples, first intellectually, then they practised until they 
made the channel within themselves for Thought to 
manifest under the direction of their Will. When they 
were ready, the statue earved itself; the palace drew its 
own design; the machine built itself; the poem forced it- 
self into expression. The way had been prepared by doing 
at it. not trying, hut by doing each day the very best 
possible and thus each day coming nearer to the real, 
which is eternally within the mind. 

MATERIALIZED 
WILL 

The piano player teaches us how to build a nervous 
structure to order. Me begins awkwardly and bungling- 
ly t<» fumble the keys. Bach day his fingers learn bet- 
ter to obey his Will. After a long practice, they have 
learned t<> play what is in the mind. They find the keys 
and strike them without the conscious direction of the 
player. The Will has been materialized in them and 
has produced nerve cells which act automatically. Af- 
ter the nerves have thus been reconstructed under the 
direction of the Will, the player forgets his fingers, 
lets them do the mechanical part, while he plays men- 
tally only, lie listens to the internal music while the 
fingers play. John Fiske says: 'This result is possi- 
ble only because of a bodily change which has taken 
place in him. Countless molecular alterations have been 
wrought in the structure of sundry nerves and muscles, 
especially in the grey matter of sundry ganglia and 
nerve centers. Every ganglion concerned in the need- 
ful adjustment of eyes, fingers, wrists, or in the repeti- 

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tions of musical sounds has undergone a change more 
or less profound. It is enough for us to know there is 
such a registration of experiences." In relation to this 
"registration," he says: "Any creature's ability to per- 
ceive and act depends upon the registration of experi- 
ences in his nerve centers. It is either individual or an- 
cestral experience that is thus registered; strictly speak- 
ing, it is both." I fere we have all the physiological evi- 
dence necessary to demonstrate scientifically the facts 
of mental healing and to prove our theory as to the 
place and power of Suggestion. Experiences register 
themselves in brain and nervous changes. 

MASTERY 
OF FATE 

Each Suggestion affects the nerve tissue. It builds it- 
self into bodily expression. The body is the material- 
ized experiences of the individual. All experiences are 
those of thinking and feeling. The body is therefore 
only materialized feeling and thought. This is the 
itest discover)- man has made of his power over Na- 
ture. He can. by the conscious use of his Will, mold 
her into the semblance of his own ideal. He does now, 
as far as his body is concerned, mold her unconsciously. 
He is learning consciously to build not only body but 
environment to his ideal, through the use of his Will. 
Nature's side of the expression is in the building of the 
external, the physical, man. The director of the finei 
force- is Suggestion. Man's side is Auto-Suggestion, 
or the better word is Affirmation. We have found in 
this word, Affirmation, the Key to Power. Science 
found it for us. Tint she never opened the treasure- 
house. \'o\v the key is placed in the lock. Will you 
turn it and In this book arc the necessary di- 

rections. They have been found by the effects of 

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Thought conditions artifically produced by Suggestion 
and Hypnotism, Suggestion being the Law, or princi- 
ple, and Hypnotism, the Art. Hypnotic experiments 
nave- taught us the principle, power and use of Sugges- 
tion. Now become to yourself both subject and Sug- 
gested You have learned the Law. All yon need now 
is practice. Practice leads, through Demonstration, to 

Realizaton. This won. you are the Master of Pate. 

THE MANIFEST 
IDEAL 

No knowledge is superior to this. It is all that an. 
healer, seer or conqueror ever learned. With this word, 
the portals of sense may be passed. Its word of pow- 
er is AFFIRMATION. Its bugle .-all is SUGGES; 
HON. | ( , (l ll who enlist under this banner, there is 
nothing but victory. Victory means Health, Success, 
Prosperity and Blessedness. The Way: AFFIRM 
'''"'•- IDEAL HOLD To IT THROUGH CON- 
CENTRATION. LET Till- [DEAL MANIFEST. 
FAITH l.\ SELF must give birth to the Affirmation, 
1 AM! The end is Self-Control. 



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Formulas For Self-Hypnotism 

AFFIRMATIONS 

The benefit of this book lies in the fact that it has stim- 
ulated you to right thinking- and right living. To think 
and to live rightly, you must constantly practice the 
principle of Self-suggestion. By practice, you are to 
make conditions to your desire. By CONSCIOUS 
WILL, you are to Master Fate. 

If you find it difficult to hold the thought silently, it 
is a good plan to talk aloud to yourself. Treat the con- 
scious man as subject and the "I" as operator. Persist 
until you yield to the Affirmation as the subject yields 
to the command of operator. Use these thoughts in 
any language to suit. Remember: According to the 
amount of Will that you put into your thought is the 
benefit received. Therefore, when affirming, throw 
back the shoulders, hold head erect, sit or stand firm, 
and feel the spirit of the Affirmaton. Use your own 
name in place of John Smith. 

For Pain, say: — 

Xow. sir, you are Life! You cannot have pain. All pain 
has left you. Now go about your work. Attend to 
your business, John Smith, and T will attend to mine. 
1 (Mind) built this body and I will restore it when you 
let me alone. 

For Nervous Conditions: — 

Xow. sir, sit down in that chair and relax. Let go! T.e 1 
r. of old thoughts! Let go of your body. Forget 

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yo« have one. Imitate the baby, the cat and the doe 
"to» they rest There now, you fee] better already 
rnere, sir, how much relaxed you are. You are rested 
already. Now keep peace in your mind and oo to work 
i ou arc- Peace. 

For Insomnia: — 

Daring the day, when you think of the night, say "1 
shall sleep well tonight." When bedtime come s ; say: 

u ( ,\ lmv slee PV am - ' a,,va(,v y*wn." Now yawn, 
whether you feel to or not. Keen yawning till von do 
feel, then let u yawn itself and continue to say "I'm 
sleepy, till you lose yourself in sleep. 

For any kind of Sickness :— 

Mow John Smith, you are Spirit, for I am Spirit and 
f made you. Spirit cannot be sick. Therefore this con 
dition is purely a mental one and you are to change it 
Ever remember that / am not sick. I am Life. Life 
manifests ; just as perfectly as you, Mm Smith, let it. 
It you will repress it by thinking disease and pain, then 
you will have them. Now you have forgotten them and 
onl^ remember that I am LIFE. This you will repent 
'"' I have made your body over anew: I \M I IFF' 
I AM UFE! ' uirni 

For Discontent: — 

Now, sir, you have everything you desire. Life is yours 
^ Life contains all. You are Contentment. 
For Poverty: — 

Weil si,-, you have all that is. You have Life and all 
that Life needs. God is within you. God is all! Let 
U>d manifest as He will. Let Life manifest. Polarize 
yourself and draw what you desire. Stop saying, "I am 

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poor." Say, "J have all. I am rich, for I have all 1 
can use.'' Stop this economy. Jt will lead yon to the 
poorhouse. 1 cannot lead you to things you wish when 

I you fill your mind with these thoughts of poverty. 
Hereafter, keep full of Faith in the Good. Call your 
own to you by this Affirmation. I am with you and I 
am Power. Attend to your business of using- to your 
desire what you have. Use it now. It is my business 
to bring more when this is gone. 

The Affirmation, My SUPPLY IS INFINITE, will 
cure all poverty when it becomes Faith. 

For Bad Habits:— 

To cure any bad habit, say to yourself whenever you 
treat yourself or whenever you think of the habit: You 
are the Master of Self. You do just what you desire. 
Tobacco has no power over you. (Or beer, or worry. 
or anger, or gossip, or fault-finding, or argument, or 
talking of your pains or troubles. Use any one that 
fits the case.) You are temperate in all things, for I, 
the Soul, now guide you. Tell yourself: "Sir, I am 
Master." Affirm : "This old habit has passed from me. 
I love the good. Good fills me so full that there is in 
me no place for anything else. I am happy for old 
things are passed away." 

For Fear: — 

Fear is the one cause of all the evils of life. Use this 
formula in its thought, changing the words to suit : 
I am fearless. All is good. No evil can come to me. 
I am courage. I am guided from within. I can make 
no mistake. T have banished all fear. T trust myself. 
I have confidence in myself. I rely upon myself. I am 
equal to any emergency. There is for me protection at 

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fearless. 



o evil can come near my dwelling, I am 



Post-Hypnotic Self-Suggestions :— 

Have yon forgotten something? Then say: "J know. 
B 5 sti11 - ^ will come to me." Then forget that you 
wlsn l " know and LET it jail into the mind. There is 
something yon wish to deride upon or wish to think of; 
say: "When I awaken in the morning, I shall know 
what to do; I shall know what to say; I shall know 
wn at to write; ! shall have the solution in my mind." 
By these Post Hypnotic Suggestions, you may call up 
from the subconscious anything you desire. 

I 'Envoi 

For the present, we part company. The subject is only 
opened. We have much to learn, much to Demonstrate. 
1 Promised to do a part. Ii is done. 1 have given you 
tlu ' Kl '. v - It is yours to use. I know the treasure that 
awaits you. Congratulating you on your POSSES- 
SION, I leave you to the Joy of Self-Control attained 
through Self-Suggestion. 






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